[FourtySeven]

Nice story. Thanks for sharing!

[kinsman redeemer]

A priest looking for advice on how to advance the Church

Teach God's Word. He will build His Church.

[CynicalBear]

But Catholics never post threads that belittle Protestants.

[Legatus]

This bishop is the current Bishop of Rome

Well that's just ducky... spifferific even.

[metmom]

He furthermore has been given to believe that he can determine on his own that one outside the Church, with no possibility of being absolved from his or her sins “faces the Lord,” the presumption being that such a person is fine where they are; outside of the solitary Ark of Salvation.

And just what the heck is "the solitary Ark of Salvation"?

Besides another term never found in Scripture.

Salvation is through Christ and faith in Him and nowhere is He called *the Ark of Salvation*.

[daniel1212]

In his mind, a woman who hides her supposed devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary for fear of rebuke from a heretic “pastor,” and who is steadfast in “worshiping” in a heretical community, has undergone a “reconciliation with the Church”

Here then is a possible answer to a perplexing mystery! After approx. 2,000 years of searching the Scriptures for at least one prayer addressed to Mary or another saint in Heaven, we may have to postulate that the early church did so, but in secret!

Blasphemous, as an unique attribute of God is that He is the only one ever addressed in prayer to Heaven, His throne, to which Christ gained direct access for us by His sinless shed blood, and only God is ever shown able to hear and respond to the multitudinous incessant prayers to Heaven.

But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil. (Jeremiah 44:17)

As for the charge of evangelical pastor being a heretic,that belongs to Rome, as she is the invisible church in Scripture, as her distinctives, from pastors titled "priests" to a perpetual infallible magisterium, are simply not seen therein.

[Salvation]

**the principle of the village school. **

I didn’t read much beyond that comment. When someone doesn’t know how to spell, they probably don’t know of what they write either.